Sensitivity of NEXT-100 to neutrinoless double beta decay

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2016, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Martin Albo J ^a,r   Munoz Vidal J ^a   Ferrario, P ^a   Nebot Guinot, M ^a   Gomez Cadenas J J ^a   Alvarez V ^a   Azevedo, C D R ^b   Borges, F I G ^c   Carcel S ^a   Carrion J V ^a   Cebrian S ^d   Cervera, A ^a   Conde, C A N ^c   Diaz J ^a   Diesburg, M ^e   Esteve, R ^f   Fernandes, L M P ^g   Ferreira, A L ^b   Freitas, E D C ^g   Goldschmidt, A ^h   Gonzalez Diaz D ⁱ   Gutierrez R M ^j   Hauptman, J ^k   Henriques, C A O ^g   Hernando Morata, J A ^l   Herrero, V ^f   Labarga, L ^m   Laing, A ^a   Lebrun, P ^e   Liubarsky, I ^a   Lopez March N ^a   Lorca, D ^a   Losada, M ^j   Martinez Lema G ^l   Martinez A ^a   Monrabal, F ⁿ   Monteiro, C M B ^g   Mora, F J ^f   Moutinho, L M ^b   Novella, P ^a   Nygren, D ⁿ   Palmeiro, B ^a   Para, A ^e   Querol, M ^a   Renner, J ^a   Ripoll, L ^o   Rodriguez J ^a   Santos, F P ^c   dos Santos, J M F ^g   Serra, L ^a   Shuman, D ⁿ   Simon A ^a   Sofka, C ^p   Sorel, M ^a   Stiegler, T ^p   Toledo, J F ^f   Torrent, J ^o   Tsamalaidze, Z ^q   Veloso, J F C A ^b   Webb, R ^p   White, J T ^p   Yahlali, N ^a   Yepes Ramirez H ^j   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^e FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^h LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ CERN   (Switzerland)

^j CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES   (Colombia)

^k IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^m UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^p TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^r UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Dark Matter and Double Beta Decay (experiments); Rare decay

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971516737     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2016)159     Document Type: Article

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